The industrial features of the Parade were:
Float of the Bridgeport Wood Finishing Company, decorated with the national colors and displaying the signs, “Wheeler’s Patent Wood Filler,” “Paint That Lasts,” etc. It carried boxes and cans of the company’s products and pieces of silex in its natural state.
Float of G. B. Shiappacassee, the Bank Street fruit dealer,—a brand new wagon decorated with the national colors and carrying oranges, bananas and pineapples, arranged with a fine consideration for color and form.
Float of the New Milford Hat Company, decorated with the national colors and carrying a group of hat-makers, who gave a practical illustration, along the line of march, of the different processes of hat-making.
A tobacco float displaying the firm names—S. Rossin & Son, J. Lichtenstein, C. F. Schoverling & Co., Staubb & Mallett, J. Marquesee—and the legend, “New Milford Supplies the World with Tobacco,” and carrying a large number of tobacco boxes.
Float of W. H. Coleman, a new milk wagon decorated with the national colors and bearing the inscription, “Conetia Farm Dairy.”